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Week 9 TE Rankings: 2025 Fantasy Football Rankings

Week 9 TE Rankings: 2025 Fantasy Football Rankings

NFL DraftKings Network

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By: Zach Thompson

Tight ends can be the best of friends or the worst of enemies for fantasy football managers, and Week 8 continued the wild ride at the position this season with rookies, injuries, and surprises continuing each week. As you look ahead, let’s run down the top 15 TE Rankings for week 9 to help you with all your lineup decisions at the position this week.

Week 9 continues a busy stretch of the season for bye weeks with four more teams getting the week off. The Browns, Jets, Eagles and Buccaneers get the week off, leaving us 28 teams in the player pool. Brock Bowers (knee) could return, and Trey McBride will be back from his bye week, so along with all the surging rookies, there are plenty of strong plays to consider.

In Week 8, Tucker Kraft (36.3 FPTS) had the biggest week of all tight ends (coming into Monday’s game). Rookie Oronde Gadsden II (18.7FPTS) was second after winning the week in Week 7, followed by Harold Fannin Jr. (18.4 FPTS), Dallas Goedert (17.8 FPTS) and Kyle Pitts Sr. (14.9 FPTS).

To help you set your lineups each week, check out my positional rankings each Monday at DK Network. You can find them on my author page if all the other awesome content bumps them down the page.

Since these TE rankings are released on Monday, anything that changes throughout the week will need to be adjusted. Be sure to stay tuned to DK Network for all the analysis you need to get ready for another huge week!

Here are my top 15 tight ends that I would start in Week 9:

  1. Trey McBride (at DAL)
  2. Brock Bowers (vs. JAC) –if ready to return
  3. Tucker Kraft (vs. CAR)
  4. Tyler Warren (at PIT)
  5. Jake Ferguson (vs. ARI)
  6. George Kittle (at NYG)
  7. Oronde Gadsden II (at TEN)
  8. Sam LaPorta (vs. MIN)
  9. Zach Ertz (vs. SEA)
  10. Travis Kelce (at BUF)
  11. Kyle Pitts Sr. (at NE)
  12. Hunter Henry (vs. ATL)
  13. T.J. Hockenson (at DET)
  14. Evan Engram (at HOU)
  15. Dalton Kincaid (vs. KC)

These rankings are based on news and information available as of Monday afternoon. Stay tuned to DraftKings Network throughout the week for ongoing coverage as matchups and situations develop.

Zach Thompson
Zach has been part of the DraftKings team since 2017 and covers baseball, basketball, golf, football and any other sport that offers DFS fun. He has been playing fantasy sports since box scores were only available in the newspaper the following day. Even though he grew up almost 8,000 miles away in Guam, he is a diehard Boston sports fan but will take a fantasy value play wherever he can get it, even if it’s from the Yankees.
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